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x0x7@lemmy.worldto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Canada is buying advertising in the US (seen in Florida)119·1 month agoI wonder if Canadians can read and learn that their own tariffs are causing the same problems for them.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Canada is buying advertising in the US (seen in Florida)319·1 month agoWhich is pretty true. But it’s funny because Canada has tougher tariffs on the US meaning their people pay more for things there for exactly the same reason. Canada charges a 300% tariff on dairy.
So yeah. Tariffs are bad. Let’s get rid of them entirely.
Jokes on them. I’m going to use AI to estimate the value of content, and now I’ll get the kind of content I want, though fake, that they will have to generate.
x0x7@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is it that you can't buy a 2 Liter container of beer or coffee?42·2 months agoHow am I not aware of that being a thing. I looked it up to confirm my stupidity but I ended up finding what I thought I would find. Syrup to add to coffee. I have never heard of anyone selling a concentrated coffee syrup.
x0x7@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is it that you can't buy a 2 Liter container of beer or coffee?71·2 months agoOk. That’s valid.
x0x7@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If we took all the gold owned by the US government and distributed it evenly would this be a positive thing to do?62·2 months agoBut they have a little less than 60% of the total US gold reserves.
Do you want the government to give you some gold?
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Flirting with Trump is flirting with Nazism - Response to Andy Yen (CEO of Proton AG) on Reddit 📢📢📢43·3 months agoAnd also a reminder that Switzerland flirted with actual nazism. Remember that whole “neutral” during WWII thing. That was really finlandization of Switzerland from western powers. They operated inside the German economic block.
So telling a swiss company that Trump is a nazi and association with anything even 0.0000001% a nazi would be outside of what you’d expect for a Swiss is kind of funny.
The only thing Nazi-like about Trump is his support of Israel committing a genocide against people who are in the way of Israel’s Lebensraum.
So if I make a better car using customer feedback is the rights to the car really theirs because it was their opinions that went partially into the end product?
IP is a joke anyway. If you put information out into the world you don’t own it. Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. You can simultaneously support torrenting movies (I do, and I assume you do too), while also claiming you own your comments on the internet and no one can “pirate” them.
x0x7@lemmy.worldOPto science@lemmy.world•Paid to Peer-Review: Physicians Reviewing Top Medical Journals Receive Billions from Pharmaceuticals3·6 months agoBut also companies don’t do things for free, so what were they hoping to get out of paying?
Democracy dumbs down civilization.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existedEnglish1011·7 months agoThis is why pirating is justified. If you want your shows to last forever, torrent them, and keep them seeded.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?English5·9 months agoIt sounds like everyone but mods should be able to see voters. But of course they will use straw accounts. What if only votes on your own post/comment were revealed to you? Like some pointed out, they are already not anonymous to anyone who wants to try hard enough to get the data because of federation. So the question is who do we want to be able to see that data easily? It’s a GUI modification in any case. Who are we making the gui modification for?
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your sayEnglish21·9 months agoThen I’m super for it. Might as well make what is available to a few try hards available to all easily.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your sayEnglish311·9 months agoFor this user base it is the right answer. So many petty downvoters. On my site I’m considering a rule that would make it so you can’t be the vote that casts a comment into the negative without giving a reason, and then that reason would be turned into a comment. If something is worth downvoting then it is worth explaining why someone is wrong. If you can’t do that maybe you shouldn’t downvote. I don’t think you should have to do that every time. But if a comment is going to go negative someone should step up to the plate and bother to articulate. That way a comment can’t get hidden away from the public just because a petty mob that can’t even present an argument sees it as convenient if certain information disappears.
So in that case the downvoter who crossed it into the negative would not be anonymous.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmwareEnglish10·11 months agoThis logic breaks down when you realize the laptop is mine, and not HP’s or Windows. And any software that is mine, my copy of windows should also be mine and not microsoft’s, can modify my device if I have selected some of my software to do that.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmwareEnglish16·11 months agoIf you don’t use HP and you don’t use windows you won’t have the problem. You should be boycotting HP as a part of BDS anyway. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp
“But I already bought an HP.” If you had adopted BDS much earlier like you should have you wouldn’t have these problems.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt inEnglish3·11 months agoNo one would opt-in to having all of their personal files sent to the cloud. But Windows managed to get my father using OneDrive even though he had no idea what it was. He was absolutely pissed when I told him. Somehow that wasn’t enough to get off of windows completely though.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt inEnglish13·11 months agoThey use dark patterns and cryptic dialog boxes to get old people to opt in.
x0x7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan userEnglish41·11 months agoThat’s not what makes websites slow. It’s React.
Retards with React. “I’m optimizing user experience”
When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.
And he didn’t use Linux as a teenager. You hallucinate things worse than ChatGPT.